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Sheriff candidates sharpen their messages
PORT ANGELES — Sheriff challenger Bill Benedict promised Monday to “return trust and responsibility to the sheriff’s office,”…
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County delays pact with Port Angeles city
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County commissioners and Port Angeles City Council members were expected today to agree to…
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Opposition to Olympic National Park’s proposed controlled burn heats up
LAKE OZETTE — Olympic National Park’s plan to burn three acres of brush and saplings at a historic…
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Shelter’s Shirley needs needles to heal
PORT ANGELES — To look into Shirley’s liquid, deep-brown eyes is to want to pick her up and…
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Sheriff candidates spar over department’s reputation
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County’s two candidates for sheriff traded jabs — but no roundhouse punches — in…
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Navy water desalination unit arrives to quench thirsts of Neah Bay
NEAH BAY — A U.S. Navy water purification system arrived on the Makah reservation Monday to turn 100,000…
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Peninsula ready to join one-call help line
PORT ANGELES — Deet, doot, doot. These three little telephone tones for 2-1-1 could be the quickest link…
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Hard lessons of 9/11 aid communications on North Olympic Peninsula
PORT ANGELES — First responders’ radio woes at ground zero on 9/11 have yielded communications solutions on the…
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Fire danger remains high on Peninsula
PORT ANGELES — The danger of fire on the North Olympic Peninsula is so high that anything hotter…
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Benefactors donate for right to name medical center facilities
PORT ANGELES — What’s in a name? Just a cool yet warmhearted $600,000 for the Olympic Medical Center…
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Good flu preventative: hand-washing
One hand washing the other could wash out a quarter of influenza cases in the coming year, Clallam…
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Owner fells giant ragweed
PORT ANGELES — Think David and Goliath. Think Jack and the giant. Think St. George and the dragon.…
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9-foot ragweed is a hey fever sufferer’s Godzilla
PORT ANGELES — It’s a weed worthy of Paul Bunyan’s ax, this horticultural horror in Lila Frisch’s garden.…
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Tribe plans cultural center on former graving yard site
PORT ANGELES — What’s now a steel and concrete scar on the waterfront could shift shapes into a…
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Graving yard ettlement elements safeguard developments even though fiasco didn”t stunt waterfront growth
PORT ANGELES — Developers eyeing Port Angeles Harbor can get a clearer waterfront view due to a $17.2…
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Clallam undersheriff cleared by investigation
PORT ANGELES — Clallam County Undersheriff Rich Sill has been cleared of impropriety for transporting his 21-year-old son…
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Graving agreement aims for balance
EDITOR’S NOTE — This is the first of two articles about the settlement of disputes over the canceled…
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Lethal levels of toxin found in area shellfish
Lethal levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin have been found in Discovery Bay, Port Ludlow Marina and South…
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Graving yard concrete plant will head to California
PORT ANGELES — Imagine a 4-foot-high sea wall around the Olympic Peninsula. That’s how much concrete Fred Hill…
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Shellfish closures ring North Olympic Peninsula
PORT ANGELES — Every beach around the North Olympic Peninsula has been closed to harvesting at least some…